Six Thinking Hats

Used successfully by thousands of business managers educators and government leaders around the world Six Thinking Hats offers a practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas.Your success depends on how you think. The main difficulty of thinking is confusion writes Edward de Bono long recognized as an international authority on conceptual thinking and on the teaching of thinking as a skill. We try to do too much at once. Emotions information logic hope and creativity all crowd in on us. It is like juggling with too many balls. The solution? De Bono unscrambles the thinking process with his six thinking hats:WHITE HAT: neutral and objective concerned with facts and figuresRED HAT: the emotional viewBLACK HAT: careful and cautiousYELLOW HAT: sunny and positiveGREEN HAT: associated with fertile growth creativity and new ideasBLUE HAT: cool the color of the sky above everything else-the organizing hatThrough case studies and real-life examples Dr. de Bono reveals the often surprising ways in which deliberate role playing can make you a better thinker. He offers a powerfully simple tool that you can use to create clearer thinking improved communication and greater creativity. This audio edition of his timeless book is an instructive and inspiring text for anyone who makes decisions in business or in life.This audiobook is skillfully narrated by Mike Fraser an Audible listener favorite. Published with permission from Edward de Bono Ltd. Information on training in the Six Thinking Hats is available at deBono.com.This audiobook was produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media an independent bookseller in Brattleboro Vermont.